Ursula Batchelder Stone
American professor
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Ursula Batchelder Stone (June 26, 1900 – July 8, 1985) was an American business researcher, civic leader, and college professor. In 1929 she became the first woman to earn a PhD in business at an American university.
June 26, 1900
Ursula Batchelder Stone | |
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Ursula Batchelder, from the 1922 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College | |
| Born | Ursula Chase Batchelder June 26, 1900 Faribault, Minnesota |
| Died | July 8, 1985 (aged 85) |
| Occupations | College professor, business researcher |
Early life and education
Ursula Chase Batchelder was born in Faribault, Minnesota, the daughter of Charles Spoor Batchelder and Mary Alzina Chase Batchelder.[1]
Batchelder graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1922,[2] and completed doctoral studies in business at the University of Chicago in 1929, with a dissertation titled "The Baking Industry with Special Reference to the Bread-Making Industry in Chicago."[3] She is considered the first woman to earn a PhD in business at an American university.[4][5][6]
Career
After graduate school, Stone and Rachel Marshall Goetz ran the Batchelder and Marshall Research Service, providing data analysis and research reports for businesses in Chicago.[1]
Stone was a member of the faculty of George Williams College, teaching economics and social science courses from 1939 to 1965.[7][8] She was co-author of The Baking Industry Under N. R. A. (1936) with Raleigh Webster Stone,[9] and Food Buying and Our Markets (1938) with Day Monroe.[10]
She was president of the Hyde Park League of Women Voters (LWV) from 1939 to 1941, president of the Cook County LWV from 1941 to 1944,[11][12] and president of the Illinois LWV.[13] She co-wrote the LWV's radio program, The Women Speak.[14] In 1952 she helped to organize and lead the Southeast Chicago Commission.[8][15] In 1960 she was named a distinguished alumna of the University of Chicago.[16]
Personal life
Batchelder married a University of Chicago professor, Raleigh Webster Stone, in 1928.[17] They had two children. Her husband died in 1969.[18] She died in 1985, aged 85 years, in Chicago.[19] Her papers are in the University of Chicago Library.[1]